[role="xpack"]
[[security-api-enable-user]]
=== Enable users API
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<titleabbrev>Enable users</titleabbrev>
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Enables users in the native realm. 


[[security-api-enable-user-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`PUT /_security/user/<username>/_enable` 


[[security-api-enable-user-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* To use this API, you must have at least the `manage_security` cluster privilege.

[[security-api-enable-user-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

By default, when you create users, they are enabled. You can use this enable 
users API and the <<security-api-disable-user,disable users API>> to change that attribute. 

For more information about the native realm, see 
{stack-ov}/realms.html[Realms] and <<configuring-native-realm>>. 

[[security-api-enable-user-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`username`::
  (Required, string) An identifier for the user.


[[security-api-enable-user-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example enables the user `jacknich`:

[source,console]
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PUT /_security/user/jacknich/_enable
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// TEST[setup:jacknich_user]